Assembly BillIntroduced
A 83: Establishes St. Patrick's day, March 17th, as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more.
What A 83 does, verified January 8, 2026
The bill proposes to add a new section to the Education Law, which establishes St. Patrick's Day as a school holiday in certain districts. A qualified school district is defined as a city school district with a population of one million or more inhabitants. On this holiday, all public schools within a qualified district must be closed. The bill also amends the Education Law to disregard any reduction in session days resulting from observing St. Patrick's Day. This means that if St. Patrick's Day falls on a weekday, the holiday will be calculated as a session day, ensuring that schools do not lose any instructional time. The changes take effect 100 days after the bill becomes a law.
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 348 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 83 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the St. Patrick's Day school holiday The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3204-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3204-a. St. Patrick's Day school holiday. 1. The seventeenth day of 4 March, commonly known as St. Patrick's day, shall be a school holiday 5 for all public schools in a qualified school district. 6 2. A qualified school district, for purposes of this section, shall 7 mean a city school district of a city having a population of one million 8 or more inhabitants. 9 3. The school authorities of a qualified school district are hereby 10 authorized and directed to cause all public schools within such district 11 to be closed on St. Patrick's day. 12 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 13 subdivision 7-a to read as follows: 14 7-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of any 15 calculation under subdivision seven or eight of this section, the 16 commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from observance of 17 St. Patrick's day and, if necessary, such observed holiday shall be 18 calculated as a session day. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 21 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 22 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 23 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00399-01-5
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